Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone out there is considering rescuing one of those lovely animals and would like to talk to me or even come and see our dogs at home , I would be delighted to oblige . |
| 2 | No one wanted to own me or even to capture my soul . |
| 3 | Is it supposed to intimidate me or merely impress ? ’ |
| 4 | Plodding upwards , looking straight ahead of me or hardly looking at all , I was conscious suddenly of something on either side , looked to the right and the left . |
| 5 | During that time , some spend long periods doing nothing or just watching television . |
| 6 | Should I go ahead and stab them or just scare them ? |
| 7 | The volunteer may help the young person with job applications or other form-filling , go to a football match or the cinema with them or just meet up for a chat . |
| 8 | In Botswana , government has consistently decided to live with the mining companies , rather than nationalize them or even seek to control them . |
| 9 | From the corner where she squatted on a stool , she watched Midnight quietly serving the six people sitting at the long table ; n the centre of the room and , in spite of her hunger , was impressed by the careful , unobtrusive way he worked — standing always on the left of each person , never knocking against them or even brushing the backs of their tall chairs . |
| 10 | A self-appointed leader , he made the rules without being explicit about them or even explaining that there were rules . |
| 11 | Indeed , to suppress them or even to cut them short could be the cause of many problems in the future . |
| 12 | I suppose you do know that not everyone can see ghosts or hear them or even feel them . |
| 13 | This discovery has now been extended to the present-day analysis of human cancers by scientists world-wide and holds real promise for understanding the mechanisms that cause malignancy and treating them or even preventing them . |
| 14 | As a palaeographer he enjoyed reproducing ancient scripts using implements of his own devising , just as an archaeologist he sought a deeper insight into ornaments by drawing them or even carving them with his own hands . |
| 15 | The buffet tables were now open , and most people in here were either crowded around them or else standing in line with plates ; she could see the two Venetz sisters and their fill-in staff working the tables , carving , serving , and fetching . |
| 16 | But it dealt only with wordings addressed to trustees , requesting them or otherwise encouraging them to pass property on to beneficiaries . |
| 17 | The [ defendants ] whether by [ themselves , their ] servants or agents or otherwise howsoever be restrained until trial or further order from : ( a ) delivering up or disclosing to the grand jury in the County of New York empanelled in the matter of the People of the State of New York v. John Doe ( B Bank ) or , without the prior consent of the plaintiffs , delivering up or disclosing to any third party otherwise than in connection with and for the purposes of the business and trading of the plaintiffs or any of them , all documents and information contained therein held by [ these defendants ] at [ their ] branches in London or elsewhere within this jurisdiction concerning or relating to the plaintiffs ' accounts with the [ defendants ] or any of them or otherwise relating to the business of the plaintiffs or any of them ; ( b ) without the prior written consent of the plaintiffs ' solicitors herein , removing from the jurisdiction of this court any of the documents referred to in subclause ( a ) hereof or any copies thereof . |
| 18 | Drawing on the experience of her own broken home , Diana has not been afraid to hug her sons in public , dry their tears , share a childish joke with them or simply take them to McDonald 's . |
| 19 | Include also those items which you wanted to have in the past but dismissed because you thought you could not have them or simply forgot about them . |
| 20 | Discussing statements like these and saying whether they agree with them or not gives children an opportunity to consider views which conflict with their own and to modify their existing views . |
| 21 | The people who decide whether to believe them or not have been able to check their own stocks quickly , to make sure no bombs or material are missing . |
| 22 | It would hardly have done him much good in his professional life , where women were always wanting to know if they were having them or how to stop them or conceive them , if he had been . |
| 23 | He told his literary friends that their stories and poems were so awful he did n't know what to say about them or how to get through the scheduled hour . |
| 24 | After all , bright children usually expect to succeed , hence success and praise do not surprise them or necessarily raise them to new levels of performance . |
| 25 | Luckily for them they had been fed and wormed regularly but no one had got near enough to handle them or consequently to put a halter on them . |
| 26 | So if we can hurt them or certainly gang together if you like , cos unity is strength , and between the three workforces they 'll certainly slow down production and hopefully force things . |
| 27 | Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ? |
| 28 | my and just have a heart . |
| 29 | ‘ Let's face it , every man has the dilemma of wanting to be with someone and yet wanting to be on his own . |
| 30 | My father told me that when he was young he got in a fight with someone and nearly killed him , and that the man swore vengeance . |